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絵本通俗三国志 2編5

湖南文山 訳, 中村頼治 増補 · 1883 · 東京同益出版社 · 6 pictures

An 1883 Japanese ehon picture book, the second series of an illustrated popular version of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, translated by Kosen Bunzan and expanded by Nakamura Yorihara, published in Tokyo by Dōeki Shuppansha for general readers. Its woodblock-style pictures show dense pine and bamboo foliage, rooftops, and figures in Chinese dress arranged in outdoor and interior scenes, offering a designer strong examples of line-based East Asian landscape and foliage patterning with clear figure silhouettes.

Japanese picture books (ehon)

National Diet Library, Japan (国立国会図書館) · Public Domain Mark (PDM), National Diet Library · More from this library